Nima Motazed, Managing Director, Swiss Re Slovakia

Nima Motazed is a Senior Executive with 30 years of experience in financial industry focused on efficiency and effectiveness of operations, transformation, restructuring, revitalization and merger of major European groups.

Nima joined Swiss Re as Country President and Managing Director of Swiss Re Services (Slovakia) in January 2015. His major focus in this role is on further development of Swiss Re Bratislava as Center of Excellence and in delivering highest operational effectiveness to businesses and clients of Swiss Re.

Prior to that, he served as COO and Member of the Management Board of NLB Banking Group in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Nima brings a strong track record of proven leadership and profound experience with strategic planning, procurement, IT and Sales for major European financial institutions among them, Bank Austria (Unicredit Austria) and Erste Bank Group. He served as a Managing Director/Head of EMEA Expense Management for Citigroup in London. Additionally, he was Managing Director and Member of Divisional Management Board/Global Head of Organization and Services for West LB, Germany.

Nima attended the University of Vienna where he studied Physics & Astronomy. He received his professional diploma from the Austrian Academy of Organization. He also has completed advanced programs in executive leadership through the Hernstein Institute for Management & Leadership, London Business School, INSEAD, University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School.